Cheese Omelet (Cooking for 2)

Name: Cheese Omelet (Cooking for 2)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons butter or margarine; 2 eggs; 59 milliliters shredded Cheddar cheese

Cheese Omelet (Cooking for 2) requires roughly 10 minutes from start to finish. For 87 cents per serving, you get a main course that serves 1. One serving contains 311 calories, 18g of protein, and 26g of fat. If you have butter, eggs, cheddar cheese, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free, primal, fodmap friendly, and vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Beat eggs in small bowl with fork or wire whisk until yolks and whites are well mixed.

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Egg Yolk

Egg

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Whisk

Bowl

Heat butter in 8-inch skillet over medium-high heat until butter is hot and sizzling. As butter melts, tilt skillet to coat bottom with butter.

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Butter

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Frying Pan

Quickly pour eggs into skillet. While rapidly sliding skillet back and forth over heat, quickly stir eggs with a fork to spread them continuously over the bottom of the skillet as they thicken. When they are thickened, let stand over heat a few seconds to lightly brown bottom of omelet. Do not overcook—the omelet will continue to cook after being folded.

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Spread

Egg

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Frying Pan

Sprinkle with cheese.

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Cheese

Tilt skillet and run a spatula under edge of omelet, then jerk skillet sharply to loosen omelet from bottom of skillet. Fold portion of omelet nearest you just to center. Allow for a portion of the omelet to slide up side of skillet. Turn omelet onto warm plate, flipping folded portion of omelet over so far side is on bottom. Tuck sides of omelet under if desired.

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Frying Pan

Spatula